Others will go into more detail, but the best advice I can give your daughter is to not worry about making mistakes when learning to improvise. This is especially important to those who have spent all their time trying to play the score 'correctly'. And, yes, I believe EVERYONE can improvise - she does it already in her speech...
Rob MacKillop -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
